“the smartest minds can and must create the best code that has ever been written to actually solve the grand challenge problems” Well - that is Julia then isn’t it? The Future We Simulate Is The One We Create - The Next Platform

The article presents various important projects (curing cancer, nuclear fusion) as computational problems. But they aren’t purely — you still need the test tubes, the experiments, the engineering. I am not an expert, but I am not entirely sure that out of an extra $1000 invested in research about t…

Also in that article the authors call for sub-kilometre weather forecasts. Any experts here care to comment? The physical geography can be used in models at a small scale - but does the sensor (temperature, wind speed etc) data have to be collected at a smaller scale for the forecast to be good? As…

[image] Tamas_Papp: The article presents various important projects (curing cancer, nuclear fusion) as computational problems. But they aren’t purely — you still need the test tubes, the experiments, the engineering. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that an opinion piece in a publication…

[image] johnh: Looking at the announcement of new battery materials found using AI, that is fascinating. [image] DOE lab, Microsoft find new battery material in AI-based energy storage... “Our collaboration with Microsoft is about making AI accessible to scientists,” said Pacific …

If “AI” or brute-forcing can solve anything on this page List of unsolved problems in physics - Wikipedia I will give up on higher thought and I will willingly become like the characters from the infamous “Idiocracy” film.

I think the machine learning could be useful in helping scientists solve problems by making some mechanical or tedious tasks easier, without actually solving the problems alone. Ie a productivity aid rather than a replacement. But in any case, I am calling dibs on Beef Supreme.

Of course, in fact it’s already doing so in many ways. It’s just funnier to be an unfair reductionist to make fun of hyperbolic claims used to obtain funding.

[image] johnh: Looking at the announcement of new battery materials found using AI, that is fascinating. In the meanwhile, a preprint was published, and I found it interesting to compare it with the “high hype” random article I cited above, and also with a “medium hype” actual press release f…

[image] Eben60: get reasonable predictions about the properties of the resulting crystals I wonder what would happen if you benchmarked the trained AI comparing to a veteran chemist who worked with these materials for the last 20 years.

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johnh January 10, 2024, 12:45pm 3

@Tamas_Papp Good point. Looking at the announcement of new battery materials found using AI, that is fascinating. But the “goodness” parameter of what makes a good battery must be basic science.

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